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Two level concrete house design was created by Anderson Anderson Architecture. With the view of Pacific Ocean, this house looks beautiful. It is located on a small hillside site, south of San Fransisco, with stringent community zoning restrictions. It is self-built by the owner’s family.

The home gently contorts to maximize light and view within the complex zoning envelope and design restrictions. The area is frequently fogbound and chilly, so the sheltering design is required to provide more pleasant indoor and outdoor living. The house should also have good  sheltered glazing to bring in sunlight over the shoulder from the rear of the house.

There are two main materials used for this house. Site-cast concrete, and sustainably-harvested Peruvian redwood. The concrete wall is 12″ thick, combined with rigid foam insulation that is cast monolithically between two reinforced layers of concrete. This construction provides a massive wall exposed inside and out.

Windows, doors, flooring and mill-work are hand built and finished by the owners on site. An arching plane of Peruvian redwood paneling is used as the main ceiling, warped from one end to the other in order to follow the natural street slope at the front of the home while tipping down to minimize sunlight shadowing of the uphill property at the rear of the home. A glass clerestory box pierces this warping roof plane, creating a stairway, light and ventilation shaft through the center of the home, and providing access to a roof deck with provisions for concealed photo-voltaic and solar hot water equipment.

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